Big L Quotes:

"There's a difference between confidence and being cocky, and I'm real confident because I know what I'm capable of."

"When I first started rhyming people thought I'd been doing it for years."

"I rap about what comes to mind. I don't think there's any subject I woulden't rap about.""

"If you took the promotion and video play away from some other artists, they couldn't sell what I sold. It sold just by word of mouth."

"Cause anybody can get a deal. If I don't get the deal, then I'll continue to put my own music out,
and make my own money, until they give me the deal I need, the deal that's gonna blow Big L up as an artist"

"In ten years, you probably won't still see me rapping, but I'm gonna be in the game somewhere, behind the scenes, producing."

"Lord Finesse is calling me, like, 'Yo, one of the A&Rs from Columbia Records is really feelin' your music and he wants to sign you."

"You don't know what's that like, man. All my dreams came true. We just went into the studio, made the album, and the rest is history."

"Keep on lovin' Big L 'cause Big L love y'all."

"I've got total control of what I put out and don't have anybody telling me what to do. A lot of A&R people never grew up son rap so how can they tell a rapper what kind of records they should make?"

"Basically they want you to be a copycat of whoever's selling the most records at the time."

"I was always considered a good emcee but never thought of myself that way."